The lower capacities have become cheaper in SSD, however that's usually because hard drives rarely get too small. A 3.5" is always roughly double a 2.5", so if

The lower capacities have become cheaper in SSD, however that's usually because hard drives rarely get too small. A 3.5" is always roughly double a 2.5", so if the largest 3.5" disk is currently 1TB, then the biggest selling 2.5" is likely to be a 1/2TB, which are the ones I generally look at. However, I've already been looking into the SDD vs HDD and I'm swaying towards the HDD. I've already seen multiple USB flash failures, thankfully none were carrying data I didn't have backed up, however in a couple of situations we've got lucky; my wife's 8gb flash drive decided to fail when she needed it for college, so I had to load the back-up of her entire disk onto my FTP. The USB flash cost $20 for 8gb, which was an introductory price as it's now $30 again. It had a 6 month warranty and failed a little bit past that line, the other one she got at the same time is running fine so I'm not going to call it as purposeful failures, but good warranty placing. However, for 4 times the price we paid, AKA $80, I've seen 160 gig 2.5" HDD with a warranty of 5 fucking years! Assuming flash drive sizes double every year for a similar base price of $20 then it's going to take at least 4 1/2 years for SSD to match the HDD and I'd have complete warranty on the HDD! So IMO for portable storage, I'm not touching the piece of cheap crap flash drives. I'll stick with real technology, with real warranties that haven't failed me once since before the 3.5" floppy disk was released!